US JUICE ® Health Benefits of Watermelons
Watermelons Citrullus lanatus native to the Kalahari desert of Southern Africa. One form of the fruit is bitter, due to the presence of a glucoside called 'cucurbbitacin'. The other form lacks this bitter chemical, and is the progenitor of all domesticated watermelons. Kalahari tribesmen grind the seed for bread, they dry the flesh, and eat the young fruit as a vegetable. The wild form is quite large, crisp and juicy, but it is also tasteless.
Millennia of association with humans and their agriculture has selected for the sweet fruit we know today.
Watermelon is a very good source of vitamin C, with a typical serving supplying an adult with just on half their daily vitamin C requirement.
